Many years ago there used to be a Firefox extension (..or might have even been a Mozilla one..) that would store all the pages I visit. I recall its name was Breadcrumbs but I could be misremembering. Space is cheap, or at least affordable if one would exclude videos, which are probably technically more difficult to archive anyway, but sometimes one remembers having seen content that is never to be found again.

I think it would be useful to have just a personal basic search engine on that kind of contents, but possibly a RAG or even a fine tuned LLM would be even cooler.

Actually, e.g. Firefox could do that at least for its bookmarks and tabs, though it already does provide the function for tagging bookmarks. And I think there's probably an extension for searching tabs' contents..

Not identical but I started building a smart bookmark tool that stores the content in vectors and sqlite dB and hosts them in GitHub issues with labels managed by the ai. Check it: https://undecidability.com and code lives at https://github.com/irthomasthomas/label-maker It's a bit rough but there is a working cli. It uses local jina embeddings model but openai logprobs to determine when to create new labels.

Given how personal browsing history can be this is a great use case for local LLMs. I would love for Mozilla to deliver on this.

The original version of read it later (now Mozilla owned Pocket) had that option. but then removed that option because it went against their commercial interests.

I need this so much, someone please build it ASAP. This would be so useful!